Most of the lanterns staying on oa during its night cycle would be given the luxury of sleep
But not win they were apparently under attack, Which the blaring alert noises told guy Gardner they were, his constructed your Mabs were not doing a lot to block out the annoying sound
” you sure the alert system ain’t on the fritz because we’ve been walking around here for hours and haven’t seen no intruders”, guy yells over the stool blaring alarm to the other human lantern
“ if the alarms blaring, there’s an intruder, that’s the first thing you learned home base defense training guy”, hal Jordan says Like the rulebook Following Boy Scout he is, Gardner just rolls his eyes, he winces when he feels something bite him, he brushes it off probably just a Space mosquito or something, he feels a little bit grateful that hal dragged him to his space disease vaccination appointment
“ still no sign of any intruders, maybe we weren’t looking too hard, Gardner I want you to circle back and if you find anything suspicious contact me, I’ll go on ahead” Gardner gives a half hearted salute and chuckles to himself when he’s left his devices
“ sure will Jordi… fucking Boy Scout”, Mumbles under his breath, starting to walk back down the hall, Unaware of the invisible, certifies, watching him from the ceiling it’s scampers silently to follow hal
..
“ queen Iolande it’s good to see you’re taking this. It’s a lot of serious as I am.”, hal voice shakes the royal alien from her careful scanning of her surroundings, she turns around with a soft smile
“ please hal there were no need to be formal with me, we are equal as a fellow are not”, the human man smile, sheepishly at these words
“ anyways have you seen anything odd on your lookout”
“ not a lot now, but the one thing I have noticed is quite concerning”, she lives up her in your hand, projecting a screen
“ I just can’t seem to get into contact with xgl, I can pick up his ring signature, but I just can’t seem to tune into his communicator”, the screen shows a list of communicator channels, almost all of the lanterns on oa are shown on the list, all except for one
“ the intruder must be that robot snap, but if he got xgl, then why is he still hanging around?
“ because hal Jordan i’m here for a lot more things than simple snacking”, a voice greatly mispronounces his name, both lanterns look to see someone standing higher above them, his white cape flows in the space wind, he jumps from his perch landing gracefully in front of the Green Lanterns
“ who are you and why are you here?”, hal says, raising his ring hand, preparing for any attack.
“ you may call me, Gregor, and I am here for many reason… one of them being your distraction”, the multi armed intruder, pulls two swords from their from their sheaves, luckily both agents manifest shields just at the right time
“ oh do you need back up from your little princess Comrade… but I was informed you usually like to do one on one.. I suppose I’m going to have to test that theory”, another one of his hands snaps his finger fingers, and suddenly Iolande demanifests her shield, looking over how she’s that she has a confused look on her face
“ what’s happening? Why can’t I move?”, she notices the spiderweb of yellow strings manifesting from her ring, which has what it looks like bite marks on the band.
“ that’s a little trick I can do on wonderful pieces of technology, and that little drink, my dear is technology”, Gregory laughs, backing away from the lanterns
“ now I don’t believe you worthy of being destroyed by my hands, so I think I’ll leave your destruction to to my lanterns.. the big and the little one
He starts another bout of laughter using all of his arms to flap his cape like wings propeller him into the air, revealing sanding just behind him was
“Xgl, quick blast this cape wearing creep”, Hal pleads with the robot lantern as he puts up another shield to block the blasts from the hijacked princess
“ my master has ordered your… and I shall do my master’s will”, the reprogrammed lantern begins blasting at the human as well as his master laughs and and flies back into the building
…
“ stupid alarm why is it still going off? That’s clearly no one here.”, guy Gardner punches the wall with is not ring hand, he shakes the appendage in pain some moments later
“ I wouldn’t be so sure of that Gardner”, a voice pauses him when he was just about to start walking again, it’s odd that he can hear his voice because he could’ve sworn the blaming alarms would mask such a sultry whisper voice, and then he realizes the alarms aren’t going off anymore
“ who’s out there?… show yourself… that’s an order from a Green Lantern”, he looks around wildly, holding his ring, laughed to shoot anyone that comes into sight, when something does he can’t seem to
“ I could’ve sworn I charged the stupid thing”, he’s just about to slap it a little when he realizes he can’t move,” what’s going on here?”
“ look at me and I’ll tell you”, he moves the one thing he can his head, when his eyes catch a look at the other males
“ I… your eyes”
“ they’re beautiful aren’t they?”, all gardener can focus on either the multiple set of glowing spiraling eyes, the ripping pools of gold keep him just standing and staring
“ how about you take a closer look”, at that instruction, his legs begin to move, but the realization they can do that again doesn’t come to his mind… nothing but those eyes are on his mind
“ that’s it nice and close to me, give me one of your hands”, the hypnotized lantern does as he is commanded, and his trans breaks with the blooming of pain on his palm
“ what the hell?, What did you do?”, he’s back in control of all of his limbs. He’s shaking his head wildly to clear the fog, the multi armed humanoid in front of him chuckles as he licks the tip of the claw dagger, he used to cut gardeners his hand
“ yummy… it’ll taste much better when we meet again you feisty thing”, Gardner is just about to start blasting when the creature suddenly disappear disappears
“ what the hell is going on here?”
…
“ Come on xgl you gotta fight whatever but this guy is put in you, you’re not some on command killing machine your Green Lantern” G'nort bags the artificial range, who keeps struggling under him
“ release me you beast,my master has commanded hal Jordan’s destruction, and my masters command is my prime directive”, the canine Ranger whimpers at his fellow Rangers continued assertion that he needed to be the object of hal Jordan’s death
“ no it’s not you’re private directive is to protect and serve”, G'nort pauses for a moment wrestling through his vest, pulling out a bit of paper, “ say it says it right here”, he points in desperation at the bit of text on the paper that says just that, but it’s something else that the unlucky lantern also pulled out that catches the androids site receptors
“ I… I am a Green Lantern”, xgl‘s optics turned back to their usual green, as the spiderweb of yellow were tracks back into the bite mark
“ thank goodness you’re back to your senses”, the dog man gets up from sitting on his fellow lantern and pull the robot into a tight hug, in the swift moment, he drops the piece of paper and the photograph he grabbed with it, it has hal Jordan and the rookies he’s taken under his ring, including xgl

“ really… the power of friendship snaps you from my wondrous control… really”, a very angry and confused voice draws the two rookie lanterns from their hug, G'nort put the smaller lantern behind him trying to stand brave in front of the interloper
“ listen if you’re the guy you did that that’s my buddy you in for a world to hurt you hear me”, he tries not flinch at the laughter that illicit from the levitating
“ oh my goddess… you’re serious”, Gregor continues to laugh what is interrupted before he can stop again just say some more insults to the pathetic mortal beast that dare threaten him, The smell of burning webbing catches his nose, and he turns his head to see that a bit of his cape is smoldering, was green energy
“ how about you come down and fight me like a man yeah Multi armed freak”, guy. Gardner is panting wildly from all the running he did, his ring still glows from him, blasting it
“ oh, I would but.. I think I need to go.. I will destroy you some other time it Jordan”, he waves casually to the human lantern as he levitates over to his uncloaked Ship and begins warping away
“ OK, one of you explain to me who the fuck that was and what the fuck is going on”, Gardner points at his fellow lanterns, who look amongst each other, most shrugging
…

“What do you mean he still alive?”, Despero yells in anger, Gregore only frowns deeper
“ it is as I said emperor Despero, it seems the great wills of green lanterns are as formidable as you said.. especially when they helped with the power of friendship, I guess”, he whispers that last part to himself
“ but do not read any longer my emperor, for my own personal reasons, I snuck onto oa have been achieved, and soon Gardner and that cute little robot Will be serving m-us but mostly you my emperor”, he corrects himself and slumps a little in relief when it seems Despero didn’t catch his almost slip up
“ yes, as well, you’ve achieved something, but if you fail at this big plan you have you will face the consequences”, The purple, alien raises, a meaty fist in warning before hanging up on the call
“ oh but my dear emperor, it’s you who will be facing consequences… for you have dared see I the great Gregor as a mirror hitman to order around… but soon you’ll be ordering you around”
Gregory starts on another bout of laughter relishing in the mental image of having that purple tyrant, bowing before his greatness
End